Mindanao Commission on Women by Margie Floirendo

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Mindanao Commission on Women

We assert our right to envision a Mindanao

with reduced levels of poverty and violence,

where women and men participate fully in and benefit from peace and development

MINDANAO COMMISSION ON WOMEN

is an NGO established to provide leadership to address political, economic, and socio-cultural concerns for the achievement of peace and development in Mindanao

OUR MISSION is to INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC

OPINION Mindanao Commission on Women

CORE VALUES• Passion for service• Respect for all creation• Integrity in our actions• Peace and harmony with self,

others, and nature

CORE PURPOSEFor women to be taken seriously!

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL (BHAG)

The leading organization that will enable women to move and shake society

Drawn during the “Planning Audaciously” Meeting of MCW Partners in Davao City / June 2006

The MCW Board is composed of 11 women leaders. 8 represent the Area Core Groups Mindanao. 3 are Commissioners-at-large.

3 Program Advisory Councils, composed of women leaders and renowned experts and specialists in

peace and multiculturalism

poverty reductionpolitics and governance

All over Mindanao –21 AREA CORE GROUPSRegional Thematic Networks for each program area

Mothers for Peace Movement

PEACE CIRCLES

Another Mindanao is possible!

Not a women’s agendaBut a MINDANAO agenda from a women’s perspective

Program supported by the Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP) / Australian Assistance for International

Development (AusAID)Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)Mindanao

Commission on Women

3 Strategic Program Areas

PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM

POVERTY REDUCTION

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Our strategies

• campaigns and public advocacy• networking• research and documentation• website and electronic data-banking• integrated communications• gender mainstreaming• Mindanao Fund for Women Mindanao

Commission on Women

Mothers for Peace

A National Campaign for Peace in Mindanao

Movement

Work for peace in the ways of peace

Mothers for Peace

A National Campaign for Peace in Mindanao

Movement

PEACE CIRCLES

Peace in Mindanao is a national concern

Mothers for Peace Roadshow – Luzon and Visayas

From NATIONAL SECURITY To HUMAN SECURITY

Women’s substantive participation in the whole PEACE PROCESS

Lobby for Sylvia Okinlay Paraguya, Vice-Chair for Peace & Multiculturalism, to be a member of the GRP Peace Panel

Peacemaking (peace talks)

Peace building

Peace maintenance

Mothers for Peace Movement

Conflict Prevention

Moro and Indigenous Women SPEAK WITH THEIR OWN VOICE

PROMOTE MULTICULTURALISMDiversity as the basis for harmony and productivity and not the source of conflict

Create a critical mass of individuals and groups

committed to multiculturalism as policy

and as practice

MULTICULTURALISM

MULTICULTURALISM AND THE PEACE AGENDA Study Tour in Australia

“If Women Negotiated the Peace Agreement…” project

• Community consultations• Dialogue

with MILF, MNLF

• MINDANAO WOMEN’S PEACE SUMMIT – Feb. 16-17, 2006

Convened Mindanao 1325, a network promoting the UN Resolution 1325 and

Philippine National Action Plan

Key activities include: documentation and monitoring of UN 1325 and NAP

implementation, advocacy and campaign, lobby for the passage of local legislation on

women, peace and security

Hosted the UN Open Days on “Women,

Peace and Security” in Davao

Lobbied for adoption of gender provisions in the

GRP-MILF peace agreement

Conducted gender training of peace monitors of the International Monitoring Team in Cotabato City

Produced video on “Women, Peace and Security” featuring stories of women caught in conflict who

ensured their families survival, and the successful initiatives of women’s groups in the protection of women’s rights, promoting the

participation of women in decision-making and their roles in the prevention and resolution of

conflict

POVERTY REDUCTION

We focus on the triple concerns identified in the UNDP Human Development Report

on Poverty Reduction – health, education, income.

Invest in women and girls’ health

and education and in women’s livelihood

Major strategy for reducing poverty: INVEST IN WOMEN

and GIRLS

POVERTY REDUCTION

Strengthen the Youth Peace Circles and The Mindanao Young Women Leaders

Website www.mindanaowomen.org

Regional Thematic Networks

Another Mindanao is Possible! Davao core group meeting

KEEP EXPANDING YOUR NETWORK

Kababaihang Makapangyarihan !

Mindanao Commission on Women by Margie Floirendo

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